This website does not contain any viruses or other malicious software. However, many antiviruses may cause false positives. For this reason, browsers Microsoft Edge (SmartScreen, Defender) and Google Chrome mistakenly block the download of many files from this website.
If you trust these files, use other browsers (FireFox, Yandex, SRWare Iron, Opera). Check them with normal antiviruses, such as DrWeb or Kaspersky, to make sure they are clean and virus-free.
This problem is difficult to solve, especially within a non-profit project.
Sometimes I check files using VirusTotal and send false positive reports to some antivirus programs.
But it can take up to several dozen hours of my work to send complaints about false positives to several dozen antiviruses for each application. And then, the slightest change in the application, and it’s all over again, with half of VirusTotal being red. It takes more time to deal with antiviruses than it does to develop software!
Not all antiviruses have a simple mechanism for sending a false positive complaint. Everyone has different requirements for the complaint format (some by email, others on the website, others only through their antivirus, which still needs to be installed; different file requirements are just a suspect file, a file packaged in an archive, with a special password (and different antiviruses require different passwords); a significant part of antiviruses is not available from the Russia without a VPN). And then, the reaction of the antivirus authors (excluding false detection from the databases) takes from 2 days to 3-4 months!
The world is increasingly moving towards a system where there are not virus signature databases and antiviruses, but databases of trusted programs. The intensity of false detections can be reduced by signing programs with a certificate. However, this is currently not possible.
Previously, Russians could obtain a Sectigo (Comodo) certificate for code signing, which cost around 100$ per year. However, after 2022, the company stopped issuing certificates to Russian residents.
As of 2026, the only known solution is the GlobalSign Code Signing certificate, but it costs around 350$ per year and is not available to individuals. To obtain it, you must register a legal entity with all the associated consequences.
I have no idea how to effectively minimize the number of false positives detects…